Outside of the nuclear power station, Rex, Cody, Fives, Kix, and Jesse, as according to the orders given, were in charge for looking after the child. General Skywalker had ordered them to prevent the girl from approaching this woman, Miss Myers, seeing the way he talked about her, they could tell he didn't like her very much. Not at all even. And neither do they. They may be at War, but there were certain limits they would never cross. Use an innocent child who was an infant just a few hours ago nicknamed 'The Savior' by this awful and cruel woman, her creator, as a weapon. A bomb, for the survival of her species it is abject, sickening, horrible, despicable, it is an abomination,
"They might need our help !" she says.
"They told us to stay here, Sparky !" replied Fives.
"Do you always do what Anakin tells you ?" she asks.
"Yes, the orders are the orders !" Cody replied.
"Look, this is a nuclear power station, which doesn't inspire too much confidence." Jesse said.
"What are you talking about ?" she asks.
"He means it's not safe, Kid. General Skywalker has ordered us to stay here and that's exactly what we are going to do !" Rex explained.
"How long ?" she asks impatiently.
"Until they come back !" Rex replied.
"They are coming, I can smell them !" she said looking around.
"Who's coming, Sparky ?" asks Fives.
"The Metalkind." she replied.
"Nothing General Skywalker and Kenobi can handle !" Cody replied.
"And besides, you promised !" Jesse remind her.
"I don't really understand the promises." she said before running off towards the main building.
"Hey, wait !" Rex shouted after her before rushing off in pursuit, followed by Cody, Fives and Kix.
"This kid is going to give us a lot of trouble !" Jesse muttered before setting off with his brothers in pursuit.
"If you bring your enemies into our world, you are no better than them ! You are worse than them !" spat Anakin.
"You are bringing war to an innocent planet !" Padmé replied.
"It's survival. But there is still time before opening the portal. Bring the child to me and I'll bring her home to face our enemy, and your world will never know the savagery of the Metalkind. What would you like to put first, humans ? A child or your world ?"
"It's far from over !" Anakin growled before turning to leave with his wife and Obi-Wan.
"Whatever you choose, Skywalker, the Savior will fulfill her destiny." she assured.
"Snips !" Anakin shouted unhappy to see her inside the building when he specifically told her to stay outside with his men. "I thought I told you to keep her away."
"Sorry General, She said the Metalkind are coming, and she ran away." Rex replied.
"I have to stop them !" she says, determined as she sensed the Metalkind approaching this world more and more.
"No. Wars end with people negotiating, not murder." said Padmé.
"It's dangerous !" Anakin said putting a hand on her shoulder.
"But your world won't stand a chance !" she declared, not taking her eyes off her protector. "You've been nice to me, Anakin. You tried to protect me, and keep me safe, but that's what I was created to do." she says.
"Snips, listen to me." Anakin said, bending his back slightly to be level with her eyes. "It's wrong. Killing is always a mistake. If you face the Metalkind, you will die." said Anakin.
"If I don't, you will. Maybe that's why I was brought here. To save you all." she said before running away. She walks into an elevator and closes the doors with her energy preventing them from following her.
"No, Snips !" Anakin yelled as the elevator doors closed, watching her elplessly run to her own death. "Snips !" he shouted again, knowing she could hear him.
"Sparky !" yelled Fives.
"Kid !" shouted Rex.
"This way." Padmé said, getting ready to go down the stairs until she felt an arm holding her back.
"No, I'll get her. You go into the control room and shut down the reactor to prevent the Metalkind from passing." Anakin said before running up the stairs.
Rex, Cody, Fives, Kix and Padmé fled in the direction indicated by the wall panel.
"Shut down a nuclear reactor ? How exactly are we supposed to do this ?" Jesse asked running.
"We'll find a way, Jesse." Obi-Wan replied before joining the others.
The child has gone down to the basement where Caleb and the Metalkind are located which she is slowly approaching and an orange aura emanates around her.
"Snips, stop it !" Anakin said as he came running up. "You don't have to."
"Stand back, Anakin." she said, continuing to approach the Metalkind.
"It's too late, Skywalker !" Miss Myers said, bursting into the room. "The portal has opened. The Metalkind came, when they died."
"I must save you, Anakin. I must save you all !" she said, approaching even closer.
"Come with me. Return home and be our Savior. Destroy our enemies for the survival of our species. Fulfill your destiny !" Miss Myers said, reaching out to her.
"If I accept would you leave them alone ?" she asks.
"No, Snips ! Don't do that !" cried Anakin.
"You have my word."
The child bit her lip for a moment before looking up to Anakin who begged her not to do that, then to her 'mother'. "So, I agree and in return you will leave them alone." she says without hesitation.
"Perfect. Your voice can open the portal for Messaline ! Sing, my child." she says.
"Snips, don't let them use you." said Anakin.
"This is who I am, Anakin." she replied as the light of the orange aura emanating from her grew more and more blinding and intensified.
"You are not a weapon. Not if you don't want to be. You are a child. A beautiful and innocent child. Remember what we told you, it's wrong to kill, it's always a mistake." Anakin begged her.
"It's time, sing my child !"
"No." Anakin tried to protest, in vain, the child began to sing despite his protests. She knew what she was risking, Mister R2 said she could die anyway, her 'powers', her energy would destroy the Metalkind once she got close enough, and she would be killed in the process, but she didn't had the choice, she had to save them, if they were all here it was because of her, they were there for her, Miss Myers had promised not to hurt them, to leave them alone if she agreed to come with her to fulfill her destiny, her goal, to accomplish what she was created to do: The End of the Metalkind, and if the price paid, to save them was to die, it seemed like an enviable and peaceful end to her. They were all in danger if the Metalkind came to their world, many innocent lives will be lost forever. She had the power to save them and that's what she had been brought to their world to save them all.
"Rest now
My warrior
Rest now, your hardship is over.
Live
Wake up. Wake up
And let the cloak,
of Life cling to your bones.
Cling to your bones.
Wake up. wake up.
Live.
Wake up. wake up
And let the cloak,
of Life cling to your bones.
Cling to your bones.
Wake up. wake up
Live.
Wake up. Wake up
And let the cloak,
of Life cling to your bones.
Cling to your bones.
Wake up. wake up
To your bones.
Wake up. Wake up".
While the child had just finished singing, the portal to their world, Messaline began to open, the other widened more and more, deafening sounds of metallic boots, she turned to Anakin who looked at her with concern and horror.
"The end is nigh." Miss Myers proclaimed, raising her arms to the sky.
"It's too late ! They're coming ! They're here !" she screamed as her hair flies back squinting at the Light too strong, a spark forming in the hollow of her hand, ready to be used on the portal.
"No, Snips !" Anakin shouted, shielding his eyes from the light.
The alarms go off to signal an intrusion into the control room.
"What is it about ? It looks like a great arcade game." asks Fives.
"That's what controls the nuclear fuel rods." Obi-Wan explains. "Remove the rods and close the reactor."
They obey and use the joysticks to target the rods on the screen. "But it's not coming out, General !" Jesse growled impatiently.
"It doesn't work !" said Fives. "What are we doing wrong ?"
"You have to delete them in order. Two at a time." Rex explained.
"What ? By order ? What order ?" Jesse asked.
"It's a spectrum of color." Obi-Wan realized.
"What ?" asked Fives.
"Do it. We do not have much time. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple !" Padmé explained.
Jesse and Fives do so and remove as instructed, the stems two by two until there are only two left. The last two. "Almost there." said Fives.
"The last one." Jesse commented.
Immersed into darkness with the light off, the child screams before collapsing to the ground and the Portal disappears. "No !" Anakin yelled running to her side, he knelt down and turned her gently to rest her head on his knees.
Obi-Wan, Padmé rush to them, followed very closely by Rex and his brothers. Their worries skyrocket when they notice the child lying in Anakin's lap.
"What have you done ?" Miss Myers asks furiously, but completely indifferent when she sees the unconscious child.
At her callousness and indifference, Anakin felt the anger rising in him. How could she be so insensitive to her fate ? She was nothing to her. Nothing more than a weapon. A bomb. She did not care about her fate since anyway from what R2 had said, that at the molecular level, the child is a weapon programmed to destroy herself in contact with the energies of the Metalkind, so she would face them and would be killed in the process, he sighed sadly, and laid his eyes on the unconscious child in his lap.
"We did it. We closed the core and cut the electricity !" Jesse said.
"No more energy ! No more portal !" said Fives.
"What happened ?" Padmé asks as he kneels beside her worried husband.
"All that energy had to go somewhere. She was like a lightning rod. She absorbed it all." Anakin explained.
"Is she going to be okay ?" asks Fives. "Kix ?"
Kix knelt down beside them to examine the child, taking her wrist to take her pulse, he looked up at his Generals and the others.
"So ?" Anakin asks worriedly.
"She's alive." Kix reassured them.
Anakin, relieved, strokes her hair, and she awoke fluttering her eyelids, several times. "Wow !" exclaimed, straightening up, under their dumbfounded eyes.
"You're okay ?" Anakin demands, in getting up, both confused and happy that she was still alive.
"I feel," she said, getting up in turn, squirming as if to relax, and stretch her numb joints, "I feel different."
"You are different. I can feel it too. This overload of energy has destroyed your genetic programming." explained Miss Myers.
"You mean, I'm no longer a weapon ?" the child exclaimed.
"Not even a peashooter. I lost my daughter." she said looking at them all.
"You saved me. And I am not a bomb, anymore. Thank you." She said before collapsing into Anakin's arms who caught up with her worried, "Snips …" he said, worried, running one hand down her back and the other under her legs, her head resting against his chest. Obi-Wan walked over to examine her using the Force, she had nothing, she was just exhausted. The Metalkind breaks free and grabs Miss Myers.
"I saved energy just for you, Fleshkind." he said before teleporting with her screaming in front of everyone's eyes, Anakin still holding the child firmly protectively in his arms, as the light faded and Caleb came to his senses, wondering what just happened, but didn't have time to ask any questions, they had all disappeared taking the child along with them, all come out the nuclear power station to join the Twilight, leave Anaxes, and return to Coruscant.
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